Seasons & episodes

To mark the end of long-running series A Touch of Frost, this programme celebrates David Jason's role as DCI Jack Frost. Featuring contributions from cast members including Bruce Alexander (Supt Mullett), John Lyons (DS Toolan) and Robert Glenister (DS Terry Reid), clips from some of the most memorable episodes, and previously unseen footage. David reminisces about his time on the show, which first aired in 1992, and is seen filming the emotional final scenes of the last-ever episode

The final scenes of the last ever episode were a closely guarded secret and different endings were filmed, with only the producer, Sir David and two key ITV executives knowing which one would be screened.

The final scenes of the last ever episode were a closely guarded secret and different endings were filmed, with only the producer, Sir David and two key ITV executives knowing which one would be screened.

S1 · E1Care and Protection 1992-12-06 · 120 min＋

Nursing his terminally-ill wife, Det Insp ""Jack"" Frost's life becomes more stressed when, during a missing-child investigation, he unearths evidence on a 30-year-old case involving a skeleton chained to a locked strongbox that turns out to be empty.

S1 · E2Not with Kindness 1992-12-13 · 120 min＋

Frost investigates the murder of a teenage girl, and the case of a woman who has been receiving threatening phone calls. Meanwhile, at the Denton police station, there are threats, deaths, arson and a staff shortage.

S1 · E3Conclusions 1992-12-20 · 120 min＋

Frost investigates an MP's son who is involved in a hit-and-run accident, and a robbery at a private casino, which occur on the same night. He gets a humorless new partner to assist him.

S2 · E1A Minority of One 1994-01-09 · 120 min＋

Frost is assigned a new, West Indian detective constable, Clive Tanner; transferred in to help him investigate a string of commercial burglaries, which leads him to a black family on the local Eastdean estate, that he calls ""the crime academy"", while feeling guilt over the death of one of his informants. Will the arrest of the apparent culprit lead to accusations of police racism?

S2 · E2Widows and Orphans 1994-01-16 · 120 min＋

Frost investigates a series of break-ins and brutal attacks at the homes of elderly people. He is helped by a female detective, DS Lawson, who also offers him advice on his personal life.

S2 · E3Nothing to Hide 1994-01-23 · 120 min＋

Upon investigation, Frost discovers that the apparently accidental death of a drug addict was actually murder. He also decides to confront an aspect of his own past.

S2 · E4Stranger in the House 1994-01-30 · 120 min＋

Frost is invited to join fellow George Cross recipients in London. He is instructed to enlist the aid of WPC Hazel Wallace as a decoy to catch a serial rapist, but it exposes her to serious danger.

S3 · E1Appropriate Adults 1995-01-08 · 120 min＋

An 8-year-old girl is missing, and the last person to have seen her is Billy Conrad, a gentle young man with Down's syndrome, but who appears is hiding something.

S3 · E2Quarry 1995-01-15 · 120 min＋

An odd group of animal rights advocates attempting to sabotage a foxhunt includes a working-class teenager, who is murdered. Then another person associated with the anti-hunt protesters is murdered. His investigations take Frost to tea with a local squire, but Supt Mullett is apprehensive lest he upset the gentry.

S3 · E3Dead Male One 1995-01-22 · 120 min＋

Frost's Saturday afternoon is disrupted by the discovery of a man's body floating in the river, and it turns out that he is not who he claimed to be. Events become more intriguing when the star player of a local football team collapses during a press conference, following an incident on the pitch in which he received head injuries.

S3 · E4No Refuge 1995-01-29 · 120 min＋

There is an armed robbery at a local family-run glassworks, in which an employee is shot dead. The owner, who is one of the witnesses, is then threatened, and goes into hiding. The family has a tangled web of personal relationships, which Frost has to understand, in order to find who is doing the threatening. Meanwhile, Shirley Fisher's mother dies, and he fails to attend the funeral. DS Lawson lets business and personal relationships mix, with serious consequences.

S4 · E1Paying the Price 1996-01-07 · 120 min＋

Frost's house is burned down, and he moves in with a colleague temporarily. A mysterious, ruthless kidnapper on a motorcycle tests Frost's skills to the limit. It proves a tough case to crack, and for the abducted woman, time is running out.

S4 · E2Unknown Soldiers 1996-01-14 · 120 min＋

Frost is held at gunpoint by a drugs dealer, a Territorial soldier is shot dead on an exercise, and a security van is robbed by a shotgun-wielding gang. Frost investigates the three incidents, and tries to find any links between them. His intrusions onto the army base stir up hostility from the commanding officer.

S4 · E3Fun Times for Swingers 1996-01-21 · 120 min＋

A woman commits suicide naked in public, and Frost connects her death with the later death of a gigolo. He discovers that the dead man had business with several women in Denton. Meanwhile there appears to be a series of break-ins at the local cricket pavilion, and Supt Mullett, who is a member, orders Frost to investigate them as well as the murder.

S4 · E4The Things We Do for Love 1996-01-28 · 120 min＋

A young woman is found viciously stabbed to death. Frost consults the victim's personal organiser, from which a trail leads him to a religious community.

S4 · E5Deep Waters 1996-02-04 · 120 min＋

A sub-postmistress is fatally stabbed in a small-scale robbery, and Frost wastes a lot of time questioning the leading suspects. Then, Helen Tudor, a beautiful first-year psychology student and keen swimmer at Denton University, is attacked on the campus, and suspicion initially falls on her psychology tutor, Keith Michaelson, but Frost's investigations uncover a link with the death of another beautiful young girl swimmer two years earlier, in another town.

S5 · E1Penny for the Guy 1997-02-09 · 120 min＋

A ruthless kidnapper holds a supermarket chain to ransom by threatening the life of a young boy.

S5 · E2House Calls 1997-02-16 · 120 min＋

The body of Lemmy Hoxton, a small-time burglar, is found at an abandoned farm. There is a spate of break-ins where the intruder gives the sleeping children injections, which reminds Frost of a similar series a few years earlier. A man returns home late one night to find his children dead and his wife missing. Frost's investigations make as many demands on his compassion as on his professional expertise, and he makes a serious error of judgement.

S5 · E3True Confessions 1997-02-23 · 120 min＋

A man's church confession provides an insight into what appears to be a straightforward murder. But before Frost can make an arrest, he is suspended over the outcome of a related case 10 years earlier.

S5 · E4No Other Love, aka Love Me Tender 1997-03-02 · 120 min＋

Frost investigates two domestic cases. The first is the tragically straightforward murder of a cantankerous old man by his wife. The other is a more cruelly deceptive one, in which a man is killed, and his son and one of his daughters go missing: Frost tracks them down to Blackpool, where she has gone for an abortion - but who was the father? The answer leads him and DS Barnard into a tragic confrontation with an armed and dangerous paedophile.

S6 · E1Appendix Man 1999-03-07 · 120 min＋

Hazel Wallace returns from her training, as the new Detective Sergeant, and is put to work by Supt Mullett sorting out the mess left behind by DI Frost, while he is on extended compassionate leave. Before long she is called upon, when a man is found hanged in his home, and she suspects it was not suicide. Routine investigations show that a fresh set of fingerprints at the scene belong to an unidentified man who had been found drowned a year previously. Frost is summoned back by Supt Mullett to sort things out, and he connects a painting that appears to have been stolen from the hanged man with an art robbery & murder some years before.